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Unit 3 War and peace
Understanding ideas
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contents
Pre-reading
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Language points
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Fast reading
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Homework
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Intensive reading
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Post-reading
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Pre-reading
Pre-reading
Answer the following questions.
1. What was the deadliest conflict in human history
2. What is your opinion on war Come up with three words or expressions to help express your opinion.
The Second World War.
The war is frightening, cruel and bloody. (inhuman, violent, tragic …)
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
— Benjamin Franklin
Pre-reading
Look at the picture and the map and answer the questions.
1. What do you think the picture and the map show
2. What do you expect to read about in the passage Share your ideas with the class.
Pre-reading
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Fast reading
Fast reading
Match the main ideas to the paragraphs and give your reasons.
( ) The outcome of the operation
( ) The background information of the operation
( ) The severe casualties on Omaha Beach
( ) The everlasting memory of the soldiers’ brave actions
( ) The initial stage of the operation
( ) The order issued by the Supreme Allied Commander
before the operation
( ) The 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings
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1. The background information of the operation
2. The order issued by the Supreme Allied Commander before the operation
By spring 1944, the Second World War had been raging
across the globe for about five years. …
An order issued by Supreme Allied Commander General
Eisenhower to the troops read: “…!”
Fast reading
Match the main ideas to the paragraphs and give your reasons.
3. The initial stage of the operation
4. The severe casualties on Omaha Beach
Fast reading
Match the main ideas to the paragraphs and give your reasons.
… Allied soldiers prepared for what would become known as D-Day. At dawn …
The fiercest fighting … Boats were hit and men drowned … hundreds lay dead in the water and amongst the tanks …
5. The outcome of the operation
But, despite the high cost in human life, the D-Day landings were a success …
Fast reading
Match the main ideas to the paragraphs and give your reasons.
6. The 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings
Seventy years later, men who had fought on D-Day gathered on both sides of the English Channel, where people were coming together for memorial ceremonies …
Survivors of the D-Day landings … remember the fellow soldiers and friends … their outstanding acts of courage mean that we will always remember them …
7. The everlasting memory of the soldiers’ brave actions
Fast reading
Match the main ideas to the paragraphs and give your reasons.
III
Intensive reading
Intensive reading: Find detailed information
Organise information from the passage and complete the fact file.
The D-Day landings
Date: _____________________________________
Place: _____________________________________
Aim of the operation: ______________________________________________
______________________________________________
to reach the Normandy beaches along about 80 kilometres of French coastline
6 June 1944
the Normandy beaches
Intensive reading: Find detailed information
Organise information from the passage and complete the fact file.
Supreme Allied Commander: _______________________
Timeline of the operation:
Spring 1944 Allied troops _________________________
6 June 1944 Start of _____________________________
___________________________________
dawn: thousands of troops were journeying across ____
________________________________________
General Eisenhower
gathered in large numbers.
the Normandy landings (Operation Overlord)
the English Channel to Normandy
Intensive reading: Find detailed information
Organise information from the passage and complete the fact file.
mid-morning: hundreds of soldiers __________________
_______________________________________________
August 1944 The Allies liberated Paris and the Germans
_______________________________________________
Outcome of the operation: __________________________
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
lay dead in the water
and amongst the tanks on the beach.
were removed from northwest France.
despite the high cost in human life, the D-Day landings were a success and were seen widely as the beginning of the end of the Second World War
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Post-reading
1. What is the historical significance of the D-Day landings
2. What is your understanding of the poem For the Fallen
3. How can you use the language you have learnt to describe another event during the Second World War Share your ideas with the class.
Post-reading: Think and share
Now think about how the author of the passage presents historical facts to a powerful effect.
1. What is the historical significance of the D-Day landings
Post-reading: Think and share
The D-Day landings were the largest combined sea, air and land operation in history. The operation was seen widely as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.
2. What is your understanding of the poem For the Fallen
Post-reading: Think and share
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
他们永远不会老去,而我等生者日渐衰老:
他们永远不会为老年所难,永远不会为残年所累。
当太阳落下,清晨来临,
我们会永远缅怀他们。
3. How can you use the language you have learnt to describe another event during the Second World War Share your ideas with the class.
Post-reading: Think and share
Students’ own answers.
Language points
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1. violence n 暴力;暴行 violent adj 狂暴的;凶暴的
Language points: Important words
1) She thought that some of them had been laying violent
hands on me.
2) He slammed the door with violence.
3) My father was violent to my mother when he was drunk.
4) These modern buildings do violence to the beauty of the old city.
对……行凶;对……下毒手
猛烈地
对……粗暴
损害;污辱;侵害
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Homework
Homework
What do you think of The D-day landings Think about it, write down your opinion and form an essay with 100 words.
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thank you